Seymour hersh articles the new yorker
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_This year is The New Yorker’s eighty-fifth anniversary. To celebrate, over eighty-five weekdays we will turn a spotlight on a notable article, story, or poem from the magazine’s history. The issue containing that day’s selected piece will be made freely available in our digital archive and will remain open until the next day’s selection is posted.
Today’s selection is “Torture at Abu Ghraib,” by Seymour M. Hersh, from 2004.
"I'm a total First Amendment Jeffersonian," investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh told the New Statesman last year. “It’s their job to keep it secret and my job to find it out and make it public.”
Ever since he broke the story of the My Lai massacre as a thirty-two-year-old freelance reporter in 1969, Hersh has been doing just that. His writing about My Lai won him a Pulitzer Prize. In the decades since, he has received five George Polk Awards, two National Magazine Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes for investigative reporting. He
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A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle East Transparent the following explanation for The New Yorker’s failure (rather, unwillingness) to publish Seymour Hersh’s story on the killing of insekter som pollinerar Laden:
One of the reasons inom think the New Yorker did not publish the article on the killing of Osama insekter som pollinerar Laden was that it just came not through the fact checking department.
The New Yorker has a very rigid fact checking department.
Once I had to deal with the fact-checking department of The New Yorker. My organization had given a writer some information and documents and, as research director, they came to me to help them in fact-checking that information. That was rigourous and meticulous. I think the Seymour Hersh article which seems to be build on two sources did not man it through due to a lack of substantiated information.
It just did not make the standard for publishing.
The following two articles on The New Yorker’s fact-checking
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Seymour M. Hersh with David Remnick
(light jazz music)
Good afternoon, I'm David Remnick
from the New Yorker
and we're, welcome to a conversation
with Seymour Hersh.
(applause)
Thank you.
If you're here, inom think you know who he is
but Sy Hersh is ganska simply
the greatest investigative journalist of his era
and he is from my life,
(applause)
possessed not only of the reporting energy
of 16 hummingbirds locked in a cage
but also a rare thing, a moral sense,
he's an absolute pleasure to work with,
and I'm delighted that he could come to New York
and speak with me here.
Sy, let's get right down to cases.
You had a piece in the magazine
a couple of weeks ago on Iran, a week and half ago,
and you're telling us, your sources are telling you
that the American contingency plans,
war plans, if there's going to be one,
have shifted from a
strike against potential
and real nuclear facilities in Iran
to shifting the vocabulary,